Homer and the politics of authority in Renaissance France
By: Marc Bizer
Series: Classical presences; Classical presences
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780199731565
Subjects: Politics and government; Renaissance; Intellectual life; Monarchy; Influence; Authority; History
Description: This text disputes the notion that humanists in 16th-century France were ivory-tower academics detached from the world. Through their interpretations of Homer, they participated in national debates about sovereignty and contributed to the development of a French national consciousness.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Making Homer French, 1530-1560. Guillaume Bude: instituting a Homeric French king; title: Jean Dorat: toward an official French Homeric idiom; title: Royal mythography and its discontents: Joachim du Bellay and Etienne de la Boetie; title: Homer and the problem of authority during the wars of religion (1560-1592). Homer and the war of words; title: Reading Homer across the religious divide: Guillaume Paquelin & Jean de Sponde; title: Trojan-French chaos: Garnier's La Troade, Homer, and raison d'etat; title: Montaigne, La Boetie, Homer: from parliament to parley; title: Conclusion.